Quotes About Preference

Y cuando uno resulta ser el cliché del otro, el lugar común del otro, queridos lectores, está a punto de caer y seguir cayendo. Para usar otra idea manoseada hasta sacarle brillo: cuando alguien descubre que siempre prefiere pensar y llamar y oír a una misma persona, y que ha encontrado a alguien para desempolvar las historias que había dejado de contar y que su vida ha vuelto a ser un drama, está a punto de regresar a la zona de turbulencia

Keynes was patrician in outlook. He suspected that liberty was incompatible with equality, and had a sharp preference for liberty over the chimera of equality.

Michael wondered if God really was a Yankees fan or whether he preferred the Red Sox;

specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made by someone else.

No snow or sleet. What about people who like snow? This wouldn't be heaven to them.

But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality.

people are more likely to refrain from violence out of preference for a nonviolent existence than they are to do so out of fear of punishment.

the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

Golf was not a game he'd ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.

What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything that certainly was. The boring was everything that had stood the test of time. The boring was that set of truths that were so long fixed that erosion had begun to sand them down. The boring was geological; the boring was universal. The boring, therefore, was preferable.

Some people like a bidet, but Mrs. Salk said she does not want to shoot water up herself from a spigot that others have also used.

They chose the olive They must really like olives Forget it Now if she invented pizza that i can understand -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.

I LIKE my rivers the way I like my enemies—slow, wide, and lazy. I rarely get what I like.

I like flying cars. I prefer it when the car is actually capable of flight, however.

Blue wasn't my favorite color

Vienna's population has dropped to 1.8 million, with dogs being the preferred "child" and the average Austrian woman having only 1.4 children.

Jackson would have chosen himself. It was designed

If we buy into categories of sexual orientation based solely on gender--heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual-- we're cheating ourselves of a searching examination of our real sexual preferences.

Why," went on Edna, clasping her knees and looking up into Mademoiselle's twisted face, "do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself: 'Go to! Here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' Or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' Or, 'This financier, who controls the world's money markets?

one did she want first, the small one or the big one. "The small one," said Gloria. I handed her the Littmus Lozenge and she moved it around in her hands, feeling it. "Candy?" she said.

No slouch" was okay, but "any ocean" was definitely preferable - metaphorically speaking.

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways. LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world. What has usually been called the world is the male world.